Goering Quotes

We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.

The Jew must clearly understand one thing at once, he must get out!

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

Shoot first and inquire afterwards, and if you make mistakes, I will protect you.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

It is silly to appeal to people's moral sense.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don't have to worry about Justice; my mission is only to destroy and to exterminate; nothing more.

If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

I especially denounce the terrible mass murders, which I cannot understand. I never ordered any killing or tortures where I had the power to prevent such actions!

In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people.

When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspectionand interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

Goering was a contradictory [and] complex ... character.

Many of the political jokes that circulated in the Third Reich were directed at Goering. He collected them [all] in a large leather notebook and delighted in re-telling most of them to his friends.

Among the roles Ive played on stage, television and in films were politicos as diverse as Abe Lincoln, Juan Peron, Herman Goering, George Wallace and both Roosevelts.